★ North (Major Relationships)

A year after the creation of the FMNetwork, North took it upon themselves to visit their old mentor's impressive list of acquaintances to convince them to help with the project. One of these FMNs was a recent immigrant from Germany, a hitman and part-time gangster. North's mentor warned them that the man was dangerous, but they went regardless. At any rate, they never made it to him: Rome had ensconced himself in the belly of the criminal underworld, and North was captured and brought to the leaders, who only determined that they were not there to join them before throwing them out. They were kicked and stomped to unconsciousness and thrown into a cell, where they might have rotted away had Rome not returned from a assignment that night and heard that someone had been looking for him. When he saw North lying in the cell, he immediately knew them for a FMN. Despite his antipathy for his kind, he felt pity for the battered youth and snuck them out, leaving them in a hotel room with some money and a note warning them to stay away.

They had known of each other long before they actually met. Not long after his rebirth, Dexter had the idea to use other FMNs as his lieutenants; he snatched several newly-turned FMNs straight off the streets and immediately began to train them with the goal of making them utterly loyal to him. One, however, escaped, and evaded him for months until he finally tracked her down to the house of a member of the FMNetwork, where he first learned of its existence. Intrigued and a little irritated that someone else had already realised his idea of gathering FMNs, Dexter sought the mastermind of the entire enterprise. At the same time, North was looking for a potentially dangerous individual, a white-haired FMN with not one but both wings deformed, which none of the FMNetwork members had heard of before. They met in a blind alleyway, Dexter's hand on the girl's nape and his gun pointed straight at North. Unfazed, they calmly asked him to let her go in exchange for information on the FMNetwork; intrigued by their cool demeanor, he agreed. Dexter questioned them for half an hour before he had to leave to deal with gang business - when he returned, North and all of the FMN trainees were gone. Enraged, Dexter swore to track North down whatever the cost, a declaration that would mark the cat-and-mouse game that would consume them both for the next three years.